Throwaway neck duster for individual customer use



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THROWAWAY NECK DUSTER FOR INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMER USE Filed Aug. 29, 1949Fig. 3

IN VEN TOR.

Warren E. Downey Patented May 6, 1952 o FIcE' w :THROWAWAY NECK DUSTERFOR .INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERUSE Warren-E. Downey, Baltimore, aplication-August 29, 1949, Serial No. 112,910

The present invention relates to barbers and beauticians supplies andhas more specific reference to a customers neck duster of an inexpensivethrow-away type which lends itself aptly to single use on an individualcustomer in a manner proposed by others and now commonly referred to assingle service hair dusters.

By way of further explanation, it is a matter of common knowledge thatin the ordinary or average barbers or beauticians shop, a permanent hairdusting brush with expensive soft bristles is customarily used. Of late,however, a number of persons have offered single service hair clusters,which, generally, are made up of a cheap disposal paper stock, whichwill not stand up when put in service, for example, when a customer iswet with perspiration, or when his skin is damp or wet. These areso-called individual sanitary neck clusters and some may, perhaps, be inactual use.

Inasmuch, however, as much actual use, if any, is evidently limited, Iam inclined to believe that there is still need for a suitablyconstructed and eilicient disposable type hair duster. In thecircumstances, it is my objective here to bring into use a neck dusterin the category under advisement, in which, due to its paper-quality andconstruction, manufacturers and users will find their needs andrequirements fully met, contained and advantageously available.

Other objects and advantages may become apparent from the followingdescription and accompanying drawings.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, wherein like numerals areemployed to designate like parts throughout the same:

Figure 1 is a perspective view, with a portion broken away, of abarbers-type neck duster constructed in accordance with the principlesof the present invention;

Figure 2 is a section on the vertical line 2--2 of Figure 1, looking inthe direction of the arrows;

and,

Figure 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the head of the dusteror brush is made up.

The improved neck dusting brush which I have invented is essentiallymade up of two units;

namely, a handle unit 5 and a head unit 6, the

1 Claim. (Cl, -226) tor 8. The latter is slightly wider than the han dleproper, and in general, rectangular in form as shown primarily in dottedlines in Figure 1. The head unit is of soft textured paper of goodquality used by barbers for neck wrapping prior to applying the usualapron or hair cloth. What I am interested in is a paper which issufficiently durable, of requisite nicety and softness, adaptability andwhich is preferably water-repellent. The paper should be such that itmay be thrown away or disposed of on an economical basis. The disposablepaper head 6 is slitted to form a plurality of dusting ribbons asdenoted by the numerals 9. More specifically, I take a rectangular blankor piece of paper of the quality desired and divide it by a lengthwisescore or fold line It] into complemental upper and lower half-sections Hand l2. Then, the mating longitudinal edge portions of thehalf sectionsare split to form the fringe-like ribbons or fringed edge portions andthe two halves are folded over, one upon the other. Now, we have a blankone half that as shown in Figure 3 but which is made up of two plies.Next, the thus doubled halves are again doubled upon themselves on theline A-A so that the two double ply halves are on opposite sides of thecardboard adaptor 8 and are denoted by the numerals l3 and I4. Thesehalves are secured by wire or equivalent staples [5, thus making thecomplete dusting brush.

Novelty is predicated upon a cardboard or equivalent suitably shapedhandle with a fiat adaptor and with the double ply paper portions l3 andI4 wrapped around same and riveted thereto and slitted to provide thedesired ribbonlike bristles. Thus, I have devised a uniquedisposable-type barbers neck duster having the details of constructionherein shown and described and believe that my contribution is doubtlessnovel in this specific line of endeavor.

It is thought that persons skilled in the art to which the inventionrelates will be able to obtain a clear understanding of the inventionafter considering the description in connection with the drawings.Therefore, a more lengthy description is regarded as unnecessary.

Minor changes in the shape, size and arrangement of details comingwithin the field of invention claimed may be resorted to in actualpractice if desired.

Having described the claimed as new is:

A throw-away neck duster for individual customer use in barber shops andthe like and comprising a fiat piece of cardboard marginally invention,what is 3 stamped out to provide an elongated handle and a relativelywide rectangular adapter head at one end of said handle, and apaper-stock duster, said duster being a rectangular blank of soft, waterrepellent paper, said blank being longitudinally and centrally foldedupon itself into duplicate opposed halves and said folded halves beingthen transversely and centrally folded intermediate their respectiveends and upon themselves into quarter components, which are, in turn,wrapped around said adapter head and stapled thereto, corresponding edgeportions of said components projecting well beyond an adjacent marginaledge of said adapter head and all being slitted and defining amultiplicity of dusting ribbons.

WARREN E. DO-WNEY,

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